{"id":74610,"date":"2026-06-08T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/truck-hauling-fireworks-catches-fire-on-us-highway-and-sparks-explosive-display-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:12","slug":"truck-hauling-fireworks-catches-fire-on-us-highway-and-sparks-explosive-display-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/truck-hauling-fireworks-catches-fire-on-us-highway-and-sparks-explosive-display-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck hauling fireworks catches fire on US highway and sparks explosive display  \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle carrying fireworks caught fire on a highway in Tennessee on Saturday, sparking a spectacular display. Footage from the scene on Interstate 75 near Ooltewah showed a huge cloud of sparks and rockets emerging from a trailer of a truck as a crowd watched from an overpass. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The local volunteer fire department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1500172438525065\">said in a statement<\/a>: &#8216;The trailer was full of fireworks, all of which became involved in the fire and exploded during the incident.&#8217; It added that the devices &#8216;were going off in different directions, endangering drivers&#8217; but that no one was injured in the incident, which was quickly brought under control by first responders<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/tennessee-truck-fireworks-explosion\"><strong>Truck carrying fireworks catches fire and explodes in Tennessee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/jun\/08\/truck-hauling-fireworks-catches-fire-tennessee-highway-explosive-display-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle carrying fireworks caught fire on a highway in Tennessee on Saturday, sparking a spectacular display. Footage from the scene on Interstate 75 near Ooltewah showed a huge cloud of sparks and rockets emerging from a trailer of a truck as a crowd watched from an overpass. The local volunteer fire department said in &#8230; <a title=\"Truck hauling fireworks catches fire on US highway and sparks explosive display  \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/truck-hauling-fireworks-catches-fire-on-us-highway-and-sparks-explosive-display-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Truck hauling fireworks catches fire on US highway and sparks explosive display  \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}